Five Star Friday's Edition #85
2 comments"I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year."
— E. M. Forster
This week's Christmas roundup of superb weblog entries is brought to you by an excellent recipe, going for ice cream, a guest bathroom shower, drug addiction, more drug addiction, loss of a brother, Christmas crafting with found objects, female athletes, and charity.
Also, we would love it if you would share your best weblog entries in the comments. There's never too much good reading to be had, and we like your chutzpah.
Season's Greetings and Happy Friday!
"Promises to Keep" from crib chronicles
"Three Moments I Better Not Forget" from Ministry So Fabulous!
"Santa's Stash" from The S.L.C. blog
"Anything to Stop the Shaking, Man." from The Cusp
"Clean" from Uppercase Woman
"To My Brother, Who Left Without Saying Goodbye" from YourFireAnt
"Christmas Tree, 2009 — Hardcover Edition" from mediatinker
"A Horse Is a Horse — Not a Female Athlete" by Laurie at Draft Day Suit
"Merry Christmas to All" from Be gay about it.
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Five Star Friday's Edition #84
8 commentsIt took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
— Robert Benchley
This week's roundup of excellent weblog entries is brought to you by autism, dyspraxia, adaptability, Kate Moss, what-ifs, inequality, misdirected mail, an imaginary Christmas special, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the desire to have children, aging parents, canine bladder stones, children with challenges, Tom Hanks, Tron Legacy, love, fiction, chitlins, fog, MDMA, and a sister.
Also, please share your best weblog entries in the comments! Throw caution to the wind and copy and paste its url into your comment. I'll put one of mine in the comments to start it off.
Happy Friday!
"A Little Piece of God" by Anonymous at Her Bad Mother's Basement
"The Loop" from Amalah
"Turn and Face the Strain" from Zebra Sounds
"'Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels'" from Sarah and the Goon Squad
"Snow and a Memory" from RhapsodyInBeige
"Why James Chartrand Wears Women's Underpants" by James Chartrand at Copyblogger
"A Wonderful Life" from cribchronicles.com
"My Christmas Special" from Frog and Toad Are Still Friends
"'I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.'" from doobleh-vay
"Tugging" from Avitable
"'NOT Normal.'" from babybloomr
"I Spent My Friday Night Getting Urine From a Dog" by mamaspohr at Aiming Low
"Snowman" from TwoBusy
Two from MamaPop:
"On Tom Hanks Considered as a Viral Media Infection Propagating Across a Plane of Critical Renown, or You've Got Hanks" by Palinode
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"Tron Legacy Might Be About Having Sex With Robots" by Kurt
"The Nook of Your Arm" from Gwen Bell
"3WW Grave, Lithe and Offend: Perfect, After Death" from The Event Horizon
"Chitlins: A Christmas Story" from (I don't know why...)
"The Things You Learn In a Fog" by Jenny Lawson at Good Mom / Bad Mom
"Devouring Rainforests For the Love Drug" from Save Eco Destinations
"She Is My Sister" from Karen Sugarpants
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Five Star Friday's Edition #83
4 commentsIt is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
— Gustave Flaubert
This week's roundup of excellent weblog entries is brought to you by enlightening tweets, Tiger Woods, Charles Schultz, slut-shaming, vomit, hard things, a courtship, a miscarriage, history, social media, shoes, having a single child, the love of a father, the book industry, being the new kids, childhood molestation, shame, Twilight, laughter, a photograph, transgressions, and the truth about Santa.
And we also want you to bring us your best weblog entries! If you've written an entry you would like to show off, please leave a link to your blog entry in the comments. I'll throw one of mine down in the comments to start it off.
Happy Friday!
"The Hazards of Buying Local" from Poppy Mom
"Tiger Woods' Penis" from Libby Logic
Two from MamaPop:
"'You're Hopeless, Charlie Brown:' Celebrating the Holidays With The Peanuts Gang" by TwoBusy
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"One of These Things Is Not Like the Others, and Don't You Forget It: Sandra Bullock, Jesse James, and Janine Lindemulder" by Schmutzie
"Letters from Your Friendly Cashier: Gross but True" from The Gremlin Wrangler
"The Hardest Thing" from Attack of the Redneck Mommy
"Something More" from Woman In a Window
"Time Marches On" from Not Undecided
Two from Okay, Fine, Dammit:
"Hope"
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"Social Media 101 (she said sarcastically)"
"A Word from the Palinode" by the Palinode at Mr. Teacher Man
"Only" from Finslippy
"Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things" from Her Bad Mother
"A Math Lesson About Books" from Centre of the Universe — The Dreaming
"The Bathroom Monologue: The Balrog Looms" from The Bathroom Monologues
"Don't Carry the Blame: An Overshare" from The Pursuit of Harpyness
"That's Not the Way It Feels" from A Gasping Little Voice
"The Bloggess: Inappropriate Thoughts That Haunt Me About Twilight" by The Bloggess at Sexis
"The Saddest Thing I've Ever Heard" from Out-Numbered
"A Blessing" from Loralee's Looney Tunes
"Pondering Transgressions and Protections..." from AngryBlackBitch
"I Believe" from Trout Towers
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Five Star Friday's Edition #82
8 commentsI don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
— Doris Lessing
This week's roundup of high quality weblog entries is brought to you by sausage, surviving, happiness in imperfection, kicking addiction, Hanson's "Mmmbop", love at first sight, belonging, writing prompts, an uncle, fiction, how children can change you, Neville and Margaret, mothering and disability, Australian footwear, a teenager's experience of fallout after divorce, and keeping Christmas presents a secret.
And please, if you are not listed here, be bold and share a url to one of your own good weblog entries. I'll show you mine, if you show me yours ;)
ALSO, my personal weblog, Schmutzie.com, has been nominated in FOUR categories in the Canadian Blog Awards 2009, so allow me the indulgence of directing you to those four categories for voting, if you are so inclined:
Happy Friday!
"Think of Me" from Buried With Children
"An Adult Child Abuse Survivor's Guide to the Holidays" from State of Grace
"Beauty and Broken Things" from Sweetney
"Why I Don't Do Heroin" from Baby On Bored
"Interpretive Dunce — Mmmbop by Hanson" by Adam P. Knave at MamaPop
"Engaged" from Thin Crust, Deep Dish
"A Square Peg In a Vast Land of Round Holes" from Sassymonkey
"Dreamcatcher" from Purple Houses
"Ice" from Mommy Melee
"3WW... Again." from Eldritch Way
"Gratitude" from Sweet Juniper!
"Friday Flash Fiction — Prompt Words Schlemiel, Pest, Pater, Perpendicular" from A Gasping Little Voice
"Mothering and Disability" by Jennifer Bartlett at Feministing
"Dear Emu of Cozy Australian Footwear" from ...love Maegan
"Who Do You Trust?" from badass dad blog
"Tips For Being a Sneaky Gift Giver" from And You Know What Else
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